David Horowitz Freedom Center

The original intention of the CSPC was to establish a foothold in Hollywood, California. It was to serve as a platform for conservative speakers and debates between conservative and liberal speakers.

In 2003 Horowitz expanded the scope of the CSPC to include monitoring what CSPC views as an ingrained hostility towards conservative scholarship and ideas within academia. He established Students for Academic Freedom (SAF) to further that goal.

DHFC is a 501(c)(3) charity. In 2005 it had revenues of $4.9 million, expenses of $4.0 million, 8.4% of which was $336,000 compensation for David Horowitz.[1] For 2008 the DHFC reported on IRS Form 990 revenues of $5,466,103 and expenses of $5,994,547 with total compensation to David Horowitz of $480,162 and to vice-president Peter Collier of $228,744.[9]

The Center has the following ongoing programs.[10]

• FrontPage Magazine – a political website edited by Horowitz[11] that has been described by scholars and writers as right-wing,[12][13][14][15] far-right,[16][17] Islamophobic,[18] and anti-Islam.[19][20]
• TruthRevolt – a news website edited by Mark Tapson[21] whose mission is "to expose the leftist news media and to hold them accountable for their hypocrisy and bias."[22]
• Discover the Networks[23] – a database of alleged left-wing agendas, activists and groups. After two years of development, they went online in February 2005, with a staff of two at a cost of about $500,000.[24]
• Students for Academic Freedom[25] – addresses issues of alleged liberal bias in American universities.
• Wednesday Morning Club – events with speakers including former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Victor Davis Hanson, Wafa Sultan, Judge Charles W. Pickering, Dennis Prager, Shelby Steele, Melanie Morgan, Dinesh D'Souza, Dore Gold, Bruce Herschensohn, John O'Sullivan, George W. Bush (1999), Dick Cheney, Robert Bork, Representatives Tom DeLay and Henry Hyde, Senators Trent Lott, Bill Frist and Joseph Lieberman, Christopher Hitchens, Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes and George Will.[26]
• Jihad Watch (formerly Dhimmi Watch) – a blog run by blogger Robert Spencer[27][28][29][30][31] which has been described as one of the main homes of the Counter-jihad movement on the internet.[32]
• The Individual Rights Foundation[33] – an organization of lawyers to fight "speech codes" and "political correctness" on campuses and elsewhere. Participated as an amicus curiae in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, the successful defense of the Boy Scouts of America against the ACLU in the Supreme Court.[34][35]
• Restoration Weekend – an annual conservative political activism conference and fundraising/networking event.

Heterodoxy was a news magazine published in a tabloid format by the center, edited by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. Its focus was said to be on exposing the excesses of "political correctness" on college and university campuses across the United States.[36]

Between July 2000 and February 2006, the center (under its old name) was the sponsor of 25 trips by United States senators and representatives, all Republicans, to six different events. Total expenditures were about $43,000.[37]

In 2014–2015, Horowitz provided $250,000 in funding to the Dutch right-wing nationalist Geert Wilders's Party for Freedom, possibly violating U.S. tax law.[38][39][40]

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described the Center as a far-right organization[41] and anti-Muslim hate group.[42][43] According to Horowitz, the SPLC's designation of his conservative think tank as a hate group resulted in his Freedom Center's donation processing system being blocked by Visa and Mastercard,[44] in which he plans to "fight back" and "push for an investigation" against the SPLC and Visa and Mastercard.[45]

Chip Berlet, writing for the SPLC, accused Horowitz of blaming slavery on "black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands for special treatment' as 'only necessary because some blacks can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others,' rejecting the idea that they could be the victims of lingering racism."[46] Responding with an open letter to Morris Dees, president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that the slaves transported to America were bought from African and Arab slavers was a response to demands that only whites pay blacks reparations, not to hold Africans and Arabs solely responsible for slavery, and that the statement that he had denied lingering racism was "a calculated and carefully constructed lie." The letter said that Berlet's work was "so tendentious, so filled with transparent misrepresentations and smears that if you continue to post the report you will create for your Southern Poverty Law Center a well-earned reputation as a hate group itself."[47] The SPLC replied that they stood by the accuracy of the report,[48] and subsequent critical pieces on Berlet and the SPLC have been featured on Horowitz's website and personal blog.[49][50]

In a 2011 report, the Center for American Progress cited Horowitz as a prominent figure instrumental in demonizing Islam and spreading fear about an Islamic takeover of Western society.[51] Horowitz responded, saying that the Center had "joined the Muslim Brotherhood".[52]

The Anti-Defamation League wrote that Horowitz sponsors a college campus project that promotes anti-Muslim views and arranges events with anti-Muslim activists.[53] The DHFC was also a sponsor of the May 3, 2015, Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas,[54] where two Muslim terrorist attackers were shot and killed by a school security guard.[55]

• David Horowitz Freedom Center website Official Website.
• Discover the Networks "Guide to the Political Left".
• NewsReal Blog Focused to "analyze and critique cable shows, newspapers, magazines, and the blogosphere to reveal the political Left's methods and agendas".
• Jihad Watch